On a whim, I wondered what, if any, important events took place on this day. Many of us go through life blissfully ensconced in our own little worlds while events of significance play out in other parts of the globe. After all, we have our own problems, right? Why do we need to have others' problems on our minds, too? Yet, despite that mentality, it seems to me that it is important to, at least, acknowledge world events, because down the road, some of these events will eventually affect us directly or indirectly. As I looked up the history of August 3rd, I was reminded of events that have happened in my own lifetime that I have completely forgotten, but when I read about them in relation to current events, it is amazing how little has changed in how humans get along - or can't get along, as the case may be.
Here's what I've found for the history of August 3rd:
1981 U.S.A. Air Traffic Controllers Strike 3rd August 1981 : 13,000 Air traffic controllers walked off the job today in hopes that the U.S. federal government would agree to their demands for better pay. President Ronald Reagan had warned them they would be fired if they went on strike and a short time later he did have them fired.
1914 World War I Declaration Of War 3rd August 1914 : Germany and France Declare war on the other signaling the beginning of the first World War
1923 U.S.A. Calvin Coolidge Sworn In As President 3rd August 1923 : Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as president of the United States after learning that President Warren Harding had collapsed and died while visiting California the day before. He was sworn in by his father, Colonel John C. Coolidge at his father's farmhouse in Plymouth, Vermont.
1940 England World War II 3rd August 1940 : British troops hammered the Germans with air raids which the former claimed as “a smashing success”. Supplies, harbours, and airplane hangers were targeted in over 100 German cities. The British hoped to smash the Nazi blitzkrieg at its source.However, in retaliation, German war planes retaliated by bombing north western England.
1957 Cuba Fidel Castro 3rd August 1957 : Rebel resistance and strikes were plaguing President Fulgenico Batista’s government in Cuba. Fidel Castro’s forces poured down from their secret mountain hide- out to fight with Batista’s troops. A news blackout was in effect. The revolutionary stronghold in Santiago De Cuba had armed men demand gas from a gas station and then set fire to it.
1958 North Pole Nautilus 3rd August 1958 : The US Nuclear Submarine Nautilus is the first undersea vessel to reach the Geographic North Pole.
1961 U.S.A. Arms Build Up During Cold War 3rd August 1961 : President John F. Kennedy got approval from Congress to spend $958 million to purchase missiles, planes, and war ships to bolster the American military.This arms build up was felt to be needed because of the communist threat to West Berlin and other areas. Kennedy got powers from Congress to call 250,000 reservists into active duty and to extend their tour of duty for one year.
1977 U.S.A. CIA and Mind Control 3rd August 1977 : As of today the CIA has spent a total of $25 million over 25 years started in 1950 to study mind control and brainwashing. Research was done by Dr. D. Ewen Cameron on sensory deprivation, isolation, and his own methods of “psychic driving”. He did these experiments at McGill University in Montreal. The psychiatric patients that Cameron used as subjects were damaged for life. The CIA also funded drug experiments on patients and staff at Memorial Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Brainwashing experiments were also done at Cornell University Medical Center and Dr. Carl Pfeiffer did LSD studies on federal inmates in Atlanta, and the Bordentown Reformatory in New Jersey from 1955-64.
1978 Lebanon Israel Bombs Southern Lebanon 3rd August 1978 : Israel retaliates after Palestinian terrorists bomb a Tel Aviv market by sending in bombers to a guerrilla base southern Lebanon.
1978 Canada Commonwealth Games 3rd August 1978 : The Queen opens the 11th Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada.
1982 U.S.A. Sodomy Arrest 3rd August 1982 : Michael Hardwick is arrested for sodomy after a police officer observes him having sex with another man in his own bedroom in Georgia. In 1986, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Bowers v. Hardwick, ruling by a 5-4 vote that states could continue to treat certain types of consensual sex as criminal acts.
1989 Soviet Union Flight 007 Case Settled 3rd August 1989 : Flight 007, a Korean Air Lines plane, shot down in Soviet territory six years ago killing all 269 passengers. After 6 years 137 family members won $50 million in damages. In court the jury deemed that the pilot was guilty of “wilful misconduct”.
1990 Great Britain Heat Wave 3rd August 1990 : Great Britain is in the grips of a heat wave and the highest recorded temperature in modern recorded history is recorded at Nailstone, Leicestershire of 37.1C, or 99F, .The 1990 the record is broken during the August heat wave of 2003 when a temperature 38.5C or 101.3F was recorded Brogdale, Kent.
2003 U.S.A. Anglican Church Approves Gay Bishop 3rd August 2003 : The Anglican Church has voted to approve the appointment of Mr Robinson an openly gay bishop who has lived with his male partner for 14 years.
2004 U.S.A. Statue of Liberty 3rd August 2004 : The Statue of Liberty was reopened for tourists for the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks.
1918 Russia Germans Killed 3rd August 1918 : Russian revolutionaries killed 700 Germans in a blast at Kiev, which indicates a terror campaign has started against the German oppressors. Also, Field Marshal Von Eachhorns was murdered, his assassin fleeing from Russia.
1931 U.S.A. Sheep In Texas 3rd August 1931 : Old time sheep ranchers in San Angelo, Texas recall that the first sheep were brought into West Texas in 1875 by John Arden who drove the animals from California. Arden died a couple of years later, but his widow started a partnership with Chas. B. Metcalf and fenced in 20,000 acres for the sheep. The fencing was unique as it was wire netting, which had never been seen in the area before. The Arden farm had an enormous number of sheep.
2004 U.S.A. Savannah River Research Campus 3rd August 2004 : Dr. Bill Summers, a key scientist looked on as dignitaries turned the sod on the Savannah River Research Campus which was built for researching hydrogen as an alternative fuel source. A total of 9.2 million was spent on the project. Forty to fifty top scientists will be working on the new venture, hopefully starting a new era of universities and business cooperating to solve the energy crisis.
Here's what I've found for the history of August 3rd:
1981 U.S.A. Air Traffic Controllers Strike 3rd August 1981 : 13,000 Air traffic controllers walked off the job today in hopes that the U.S. federal government would agree to their demands for better pay. President Ronald Reagan had warned them they would be fired if they went on strike and a short time later he did have them fired.
1914 World War I Declaration Of War 3rd August 1914 : Germany and France Declare war on the other signaling the beginning of the first World War
1923 U.S.A. Calvin Coolidge Sworn In As President 3rd August 1923 : Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as president of the United States after learning that President Warren Harding had collapsed and died while visiting California the day before. He was sworn in by his father, Colonel John C. Coolidge at his father's farmhouse in Plymouth, Vermont.
1940 England World War II 3rd August 1940 : British troops hammered the Germans with air raids which the former claimed as “a smashing success”. Supplies, harbours, and airplane hangers were targeted in over 100 German cities. The British hoped to smash the Nazi blitzkrieg at its source.However, in retaliation, German war planes retaliated by bombing north western England.
1957 Cuba Fidel Castro 3rd August 1957 : Rebel resistance and strikes were plaguing President Fulgenico Batista’s government in Cuba. Fidel Castro’s forces poured down from their secret mountain hide- out to fight with Batista’s troops. A news blackout was in effect. The revolutionary stronghold in Santiago De Cuba had armed men demand gas from a gas station and then set fire to it.
1958 North Pole Nautilus 3rd August 1958 : The US Nuclear Submarine Nautilus is the first undersea vessel to reach the Geographic North Pole.
1961 U.S.A. Arms Build Up During Cold War 3rd August 1961 : President John F. Kennedy got approval from Congress to spend $958 million to purchase missiles, planes, and war ships to bolster the American military.This arms build up was felt to be needed because of the communist threat to West Berlin and other areas. Kennedy got powers from Congress to call 250,000 reservists into active duty and to extend their tour of duty for one year.
1977 U.S.A. CIA and Mind Control 3rd August 1977 : As of today the CIA has spent a total of $25 million over 25 years started in 1950 to study mind control and brainwashing. Research was done by Dr. D. Ewen Cameron on sensory deprivation, isolation, and his own methods of “psychic driving”. He did these experiments at McGill University in Montreal. The psychiatric patients that Cameron used as subjects were damaged for life. The CIA also funded drug experiments on patients and staff at Memorial Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Brainwashing experiments were also done at Cornell University Medical Center and Dr. Carl Pfeiffer did LSD studies on federal inmates in Atlanta, and the Bordentown Reformatory in New Jersey from 1955-64.
1978 Lebanon Israel Bombs Southern Lebanon 3rd August 1978 : Israel retaliates after Palestinian terrorists bomb a Tel Aviv market by sending in bombers to a guerrilla base southern Lebanon.
1978 Canada Commonwealth Games 3rd August 1978 : The Queen opens the 11th Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada.
1982 U.S.A. Sodomy Arrest 3rd August 1982 : Michael Hardwick is arrested for sodomy after a police officer observes him having sex with another man in his own bedroom in Georgia. In 1986, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Bowers v. Hardwick, ruling by a 5-4 vote that states could continue to treat certain types of consensual sex as criminal acts.
1989 Soviet Union Flight 007 Case Settled 3rd August 1989 : Flight 007, a Korean Air Lines plane, shot down in Soviet territory six years ago killing all 269 passengers. After 6 years 137 family members won $50 million in damages. In court the jury deemed that the pilot was guilty of “wilful misconduct”.
1990 Great Britain Heat Wave 3rd August 1990 : Great Britain is in the grips of a heat wave and the highest recorded temperature in modern recorded history is recorded at Nailstone, Leicestershire of 37.1C, or 99F, .The 1990 the record is broken during the August heat wave of 2003 when a temperature 38.5C or 101.3F was recorded Brogdale, Kent.
2003 U.S.A. Anglican Church Approves Gay Bishop 3rd August 2003 : The Anglican Church has voted to approve the appointment of Mr Robinson an openly gay bishop who has lived with his male partner for 14 years.
2004 U.S.A. Statue of Liberty 3rd August 2004 : The Statue of Liberty was reopened for tourists for the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks.
1918 Russia Germans Killed 3rd August 1918 : Russian revolutionaries killed 700 Germans in a blast at Kiev, which indicates a terror campaign has started against the German oppressors. Also, Field Marshal Von Eachhorns was murdered, his assassin fleeing from Russia.
1931 U.S.A. Sheep In Texas 3rd August 1931 : Old time sheep ranchers in San Angelo, Texas recall that the first sheep were brought into West Texas in 1875 by John Arden who drove the animals from California. Arden died a couple of years later, but his widow started a partnership with Chas. B. Metcalf and fenced in 20,000 acres for the sheep. The fencing was unique as it was wire netting, which had never been seen in the area before. The Arden farm had an enormous number of sheep.
2004 U.S.A. Savannah River Research Campus 3rd August 2004 : Dr. Bill Summers, a key scientist looked on as dignitaries turned the sod on the Savannah River Research Campus which was built for researching hydrogen as an alternative fuel source. A total of 9.2 million was spent on the project. Forty to fifty top scientists will be working on the new venture, hopefully starting a new era of universities and business cooperating to solve the energy crisis.
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